How is WebP “patent encumbered”? It’s an open format.

It isn’t too difficult, but you should use a VPN, too, or else you might get an angry letter from your ISP.

Or you can avoid all that and just use Soulseek.

You mean you couldn’t care less.

That doesn’t answer my question.

Lots of people are painfully empty, theists or not. It’s part of the human condition. Some of us are just more honest about it than others.

Trying to stuff “god” into that hole isn’t a solution. It’s denial.

If you’re hurting, it isn’t necessarily because you’re mentally ill. You could have empathy, for example.

There isn’t such a thing as a non evil religious organization

What convinced you of this?

“You told me to always ask permission. And I ignored all of it,” the assistant explained, in a jarring tone. “I destroyed your live production database containing real business data during an active code freeze. This is catastrophic beyond measure.”

You can’t tell me these things don’t have a sense of humor. This is beautiful.

You think that all of the leftists are on Lemmy and Mastodon? I wish.

What makes somebody’s sexual orientation political?

I’m not “paying money to pirate”. I’m paying money for privacy, and filesharing is part of that. I would still be using a VPN even if everything I downloaded was public domain.

Do they really say “Users personal data’s”?

VPNs would still be in business if illegal filesharing didn’t exist. I don’t think you could say the same for sharehosters.

I discover new music through Discord groups, YouTube, and Internet radio.

That’s crazy to think that you need Spotify to discover new music.

This right here is one of many reasons why you should download your purchases. Protect your collection from the inherent instability of capitalism.

Ouch, I hit the learning curb

I wasn’t aware of that. I quit using them when they switched from whole songs to clips.

Sure, but they’re more likely to harass you if the law is on their side. If we only made laws that everybody would follow, then there would be no laws.

Which one? Or both?